Keto Cuban Pot Roast – Low Carb

Naturally low carb and dairy free, this Keto Cuban Pot Roast is in the style of Ropa Vieja which is a Cuban dish usually made of skirt or flank steak and peppers. A super easy keto pot roast recipe that will be a hit with family and friends every time! Paleo & Whole 30 too!

Since I used a chuck roast, this keto Cuban pot roast is not completely authentic as a Ropa Vieja – but it’s absolutely delicious and in my opinion better than if made with a skirt steak which can get tough.

Made in the crock pot or Instant Pot, this keto Cuban pot roast is incredibly easy to put together, and reheats very well all week long. Your keto meal planning situation just got a whole lot easier!

Meltingly tender and oh so flavorful, I’ll be making this keto Cuban pot roast recipe again and again – and I have a feeling you will too once you try it!

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This was a hit at my house. The kids had this in tortillas while I had it over cauliflower rice. Kids liked it so much they asked for the leftovers for dinner the next night…that never happens here. That’s high praise! This one will be on regular rotation around here.

This recipe is the ‘bomb’. I have made it so many times I now I have lost count. We use it for so many different meals. One favorite is with a baked egg dish… or with eggs in a wrap.. add avocado, sour cream and cheese. Thank you for this great recipe.

I made this in a crockpot. At first I didn’t care for the smell of the coriander and cumin cooking. Towards the end of cooking it was smelling delicious! It shredded up easily and was enjoyed tremendously! Highly recommend! Great for leftovers.

STOP THE PRESSES! HOLD THE PHONE!! This is legit like the BEST recipe EVER!!! Oh my gosh – my house smells AH-mazing. I have 3 boys and they ALL devoured this. They ate there’s like tacos in shells with cheese. I ate mine like a salad over romaine with guac and sour cream. I can’t get over how complex the flavors are in this, but it was the EASIEST recipe EVER!! I made ours in a crockpot and literally just dumped everything in, turned it on, and walked away for four hours. I made it with a 5 lb pork butt. It was SO tender and SO flavorful. I feel a touch guilty with how easy it was to make!! I don’t think we’ll EVER go back to regular ground beef tacos with that nasty packet ever again. This does NOT taste like diet food!!!

My family LOVED this!! I used pork roast (pork butt) instead of beef because that’s what I had on hand. I did not do all the searing & time consuming work. I simply put the roast in the crockpot, dumped all the other ingredients on top & pushed start! A couple hours before we ate it I pulled/cut it into smaller chunks so the flavor really saturated every bite! If you want more of the liquid to cook off just keep it on high a little longer once the meat’s all shredded. I put my meat on salad & had an amazing “taco salad”. The rest of my family ate the meat plain & said it was one of the best dishes they’ve ever had. (Big compliment coming from 11 & 14 year olds who have not appreciate their mother “taking all their bread away”!) Thank you!!

I’m from Australia and didn’t have salsa Verde so used regular and cooked it in the oven. I also bought a can of chopped tomatoes and chillies together from the USA food shop. Absolutely delicious and I’ll definitely be making this again! Thanks so much!!

Hi Melissa In the comments you suggest 30 min in the instant pot but this recipe says 45. I have it in the IP now and I’m afraid I’ll overlook it. Praying you see this and guide me ;) thank you! I love all your recipes!

Made this last night for dinner tonight! Made exactly as the recipe stated! The smells were amazing…it was done around 9:30pm. The BF and I had to sample of piece of the meat and let me tell ya, as hot as it was, it was DELISH! Tried a cold piece for breakfast this morning….AMAZING! Can’t wait for dinner tonight with some fresh guacamole on the side! This recipe is definitely a keeper! Thanks Melissa!

HI! Thanks so much for uploading all of this! I’ve always been overweight and have finally moved into the obese category recently, due to some life changes. So, I’m trying to take my weight back in hand and am going to be starting the keto diet on the 10th. Your meal plans makes it so easy for me so I have somewhere to start with and make changes to fit my food and calorie restrictions. I really want to try this out; however, I cannot eat red meat. Can I make the same with chicken instead?? Hoping you can get back to me before Friday, which is when I’ll be starting my 3day kickstart and cooking like a madwoman for the rest of the weekend!

I’m anxious to try this as I’m following your 7 day plan. I plugged in all of your recipes to My Fitness Plan so that I can record my days. All are close in numbers due to various product choices, but I cannot get the Cuban Pot Roast to get to 19 grams of fat. I went over and over it trying to get the fat up but no luck. The other numbers are close….it’s only coming up at 6 grams….what am I doing wrong???? :) Thanks for all the work you did on these meal plans!!

It’s really difficult to make anything week after week because my wife prefers a huge variety of meals or she gets tired of them quickly, so I usually have to really think hard to come up with a variety of meals every month to keep things interesting for her.

Fortunately this recipe exists to alleviate some of that pressure! This is something I can make every week AND she looks forward to every week!

We’ve eaten it as a salad with shredded lettuce topped with avocado & salsa verde dressing. We’ve eaten it piled in butter leaf lettuce as “tacos”. We’ve eaten it in tortillas rolled up as burritos. We’ve even eaten it plain, as is.

My one recommendation, is to mix all the spices together with the apple cider vinegar in a small mixing bowl to form a tasty paste, this way the spices combine together beautifully. Then as the salsa verde, peppers, tomatoes & green chilis are cooking in the pan mix the paste in. It helps to distribute the flavors more evenly.

Thanks to you I am down 11 lbs in just 7 days. I have followed your 3 day kick start and am currently on the first 7 day meal plan. Your recipes are delicious and easy, and I love that you don’t supplement flavor with a s#*! Ton of onion. I hate cooking with onion, and most other blogs call for 1/2 an onion in their recipes. You are amazing, and I am truly thankful to have found your blog!

We tried this recipe last night and it was fantastic. We added sliced onion which we know adds a bit of carbs and a half cup of beef broth to keep it from burning the cast iron pot we used. It really came out as a new favorite. Thanks for posting.

Just bought a 6 qt crockpot just for this recipe (and hopefully many others in the future) but I wasn’t sure, do we need to add more liquid? when I started the crockpot and all the ingredients were in the meat wasn’t covered completely…..I’m doing the 6 hrs on low.

I made this tonight using pork butt instead of chuck roast and it was amazing! My husband and son absolutely loved it! I added more of your salsa verde recipe but omitted the tomatoes & peppers and the meat still had great flavor. I opted to add the veggies to my guacamole that we used to make lettuce wraps. While my son enjoeyed his with pepperjack cheese in a quesadilla. This will be a staple in our house! Thanks! 😀

So I made this last week and while I was heating it up at work the next day for lunch everyone went nuts! Asking what the smell was and where I got the recipe. So I’m making a double batch right now at work for everyone to try, thank you for such a great recipe!!

I made this all in my Instant Pot pressure cooker, including the browning step. It was so good! I used less meat (about a pound of pork), but still lots of seasoning. I poured a good amount of chicken broth over it all and cooked for 25 mins and it was like soup. An amazing soup topped with shredded lettuce and cheese. Thanks for the awesome recipe!

This recipe was delicious! I didn’t have diced tomatoes, so I used stewed. Also, I didnt measure my spices, just threw them in like always. It was delicious. I had it with homemade guacamole. Perfect low carb meal. Thank you! Wish i could share my picture with you!

This recipe is absolutely amazing! I followed the recipe almost to a tee, leaving out peppers because I do not like them and I did not have oregano. Still tasted fantastic! I added a little bit of shredded cheese and a teaspoon of sour cream. It was very filling and couldn’t finish it. I think I will use the rest on the top of an omelet tomorrow morning. I used all of the ingredients and 2.98 pounds of chuck roast. I only yielded 5 cups equaling 5 servings. So I decided to do a carb count and came out 3.8 carbs per serving. I am not sure why I am so far off of the 10 yield servings. Any input would be great. I cannot wait to try out more recipes.

I am new to your blog having just found you through Pinterest. I have been experimenting with the Paleo diet with success and saw this recipe met the guidelines and was super easy to prepare in a crock pot. It was fabulous! I am from Texas, so I added extra salsa and chiles for added spice. My girls loved it on tortillas and it was great with salad. So glad I found your blog and am looking forward to trying more recipes!

I found your blog a few weeks ago and it’s amazing. To say I was in a low carb rut would be an understatement!! Today I decided to make this for Sunday dinner and the only word I can come up with to describe this is AMAZING!! Thank you for rescuing my diet in 2014.

I never noticed a smell or anything Kelly, and it doesn’t seem to impact the food at all. Is yours glazed on the inside? If not I could see it becoming porous maybe and having a smell – otherwise you should be good to go!

Just finished a bowl of this delicious pot roast. Perhaps putting together a fresh salsa of jalapeños, onions, tomato, all chunked up to have a crunchiness go with the meat. Delicious! Definitely a keeper.

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I had called it Mexican when I started the post, but thought it was more appropriate to call it Cuban since it’s based on a Cuban dish – so I changed everything but forgot the recipe plugin. Sorry for the confusion -it’s fixed now. The flavors are decidedly Mexican, so if you enjoy Mexican food you’ll hopefully love it!

I was raised on my mom’s “Ropa Vieja”— concluding that your recipe is decidedly Mexican and not Cuban— including what accompanied the dish (chili in Cuban food? Never!). For the record, we’d eat it with some long grain rice and an avocado or tomato salad.

Looks great. The previous comment was spot on however.Being from Key West and eating Cuban food all my life these flavors are Mexican/Puerto Ricn in nature. I have been making Cuban Pot Roast with chuck roast for 40 years and use either Ropa Vieja or Boliche recipe for the spices. I will make this as it looks delicious, but I will call it Mexican Pot Roast. This is not a criticism just a clarification. Thanks for this adaption.

WANT to make this wonder!!…Question…Could I possibly use a Dutch Oven…in the oven or on the flame?…I unfortunately am “crock-pot deprived” and would still love to somehow cook up this flavor-packed marvel in the near future (quite possibly before I can justify buying a crock-pot!)

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